Yesterday was our koala day on tour, with 750km to travel in one single day from Exmouth to Karijini all we could do was sit back and sleep on the bus. Obviously no complaints from me! After working 70+ hour weeks all semester and having so much society work to finalise before starting the trip a day of sleeping sounds like heaven!
We got into Karijini just in time for sunset over our campsite and settled in for an early nights sleep (around 9pm!) as we had a 4am wake up call to hike up Mount Bruce to catch the sunrise!
The early morning typically had to come in the middle of the best sleep so far of course! But it was a great hike to the top with fantastic views!! It was a good achievement for me too – knowing all my previous gym efforts haven’t worn off yet.
I thought hiking up to the top would be the hard part but in fact the walk down was much harder! Very steep rocks to ‘scramble’ down and this time the only place to look is down the cliff!! Luckily we all managed okay, it wasn’t until we were back on relatively flat land again that I managed to fall over, graze my hand and damage my other arm! But that’s not really surprising knowing me!
After lunch we headed into Dale Gorge, a 3km hike there and back – wasn’t easy with the thighs already burning!! I led the way for some of the part back however after almost leading the group through several pools and a very tight squeeze through one rock Sarah took over – she definitely did a much better job than myself! When we got to the end there was a huuuge climb through many many stairs to the top and I really wouldn’t be surprised if I wake up with buns of steel like JLo!!
We’re heading back to the camp now for dinner and an attempt at a later night although with the whole bus is asleep around me already I’m not so sure that will happen!
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